Motivational Quotes

Silence

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

- Abraham Lincoln

Best Quotes about Silence

1.

Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?

Young, Brigham

2.

Silence is the perfectos herald of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.

Shakespeare, William

3.

It is better to be silent, and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

Engel, Silvan

4.

True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

William Penn

5.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

6.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature -- trees, flowers, grass -- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Mother Teresa

7.

A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.

Dante Alighieri

8.

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.

John Tillotson

9.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

10.

I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

These be three silent things: The Falling snow... the hour before the dawn... the mouth of one just dead.

Crapsey, Adelaide

12.

I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

13.

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

14.

He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.

Smith, Sydney

15.

When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

16.

'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln

17.

X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

Dickson, R A

18.

There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.

Voltaire

19.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

20.

Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

21.

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

Coolidge, Calvin

22.

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

23.

Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us.

Thoreau, Henry David

24.

The Pause; that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, however so felicitous, could accomplish it.

Twain, Mark

25.

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

26.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.

Blaise Pascal

27.

Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary.

Peter Minard

28.

Those that are silent profess consent.

29.

And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. [New Testament]

Bible

30.

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

31.

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

32.

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

33.

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

Samuel Johnson

34.

I went down with the ship but I kept my mouth shut so I didn't drown like the rest of them.

35.

I don't know whether to keep silent and let people think I am ignorant or open my mouth and release all doubts.

36.

It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.

John of the Cross, St.

37.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

38.

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.

Syrus, Publilius

39.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

40.

An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.

Bagehot, Walter

41.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

Carlyle, Thomas

42.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

43.

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

Colton, Charles Caleb

44.

Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.

Mcginley, Phyllis

45.

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

46.

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Huxley, Aldous

47.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

48.

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

49.

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

50.

I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.

Beckett, Samuel

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